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REGULATIONS 



FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 



Committee on Science and the Arts 



FRANKLIN INSTITUTE 



STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 



FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS 



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Carnegie lastitution 

DEC 3 1907 






REGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. 

Approved by the Institute at the stated meeting held June 21, 1893, and 
adopted at the stated meeting of the Committee on Science and the 
Arts, held September 6, 18Q3. 

MEETINGS. 

1. The committee shall hold stated meetmgs at 8 o'clock p. m. 
on the first Wednesday of each month, excepting July and August. 
Special meetings may be called by the chairman, and shall be called 
by him upon the written request of five members of the committee. 

2. At all meetings of the committee nine members shall con- 
stitute a quorum, except that a quorum for final action upon a report 
shall consist of not less than fifteen members. 

CHAIRMAN. 

1. Nominations for chairman to serve for one year shall be made 
at the stated meeting of the committee in February, and the election 
shall be by ballot at the same meeting, and the person receiving the 
highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The chairm.an 
shall hold his office until his successor shall be installed. He shall 
not be eligible for election for two successive terms. 

2. He shall take the chair at the hour appointed, preserve order 
and decorum in debate, suppress all personal reflections and confine 
the remarks of members to the question under discussion. When two 
or more members rise at the same time he shall designate the one 
entitled to the floor. 

3. He shall decide all questions of order. An appeal from his 
decision to the committee cannot be made by less than two members. 
He may, however, submit questions of order to the committee for 
their decision. 

4. On questions of order, there shall be no debate, except on an 
appeal from the decision of the chairman, or on a reference of a ques- 
tion by him to the committee. On questions of order, no member shall 
speak more than once, unless by leave of the committee; on other 
questions, a member may speak twice, but not oftener, without leave. 

5. The chairman shall appoint the members of all sub-commit- 
tees, unless otherwise ordered, but shall not serve on any such sub- 



committee; and whenever he shall ascertain that any member of a 
sub-committee is absent, or fails to discharge the duties assigned 
to him, he is empowered to substitute another. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

1. Calling the roll. 

2. Reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting. 

3. Reading of correspondence. 

4. Reports on applications, and consideration thereof. 

5. Report of standing committee on new subjects for investi- 

gation. 

6. Consideration of reports for final action. 

7. Reports of sub-committees, first reading. 
S. Deferred business. 

9. New business. 
10. Calling the roll. 
J I. Adjournment. 

INVESTIGATIONS. 

1. It shall be competent for the committee at all times, by vote of 
a majority of the members present, to investigate by sub-committee 
any subject which shall be presented on the motion of a member, and 
to remit the usual charge for investigation. 

2. Every inventor or other person who may submit a subject to 
the committee for investigation, shall be furnished by the Secretary 
with a copy of the rules and regulations of the committee governing 
investigations. 

3. The party desiring investigation of any subject shall make a 
written request addressed to the committee, and upon receiving notice 
from the Secretary that his application has been accepted, he shall 
deposit with the Secretary the sum of five dollars to cover the or- 
dinary cost of investigation and report. 

4. All applications for investigations addressed to the committee 
shall first be referred to a special committee to be appointed by the 
chairman, styled the ''Committee on Preliminary Examination," the 
membership of which shall be known only to the Chairman and 
Secretary. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Preliminary 
Examination to pass judgment on the character of applications 
referred to them, and, at each stated meeting, to submit a report of 
their work, recommending as worthy of investigation such appli- 
cations as in their judgment are meritorious, and as unworthy such as 
they may judge to be unimportant. 



5. No person shall be a member of a sub-committee of investi- 
gation who is or has been interested in the issue, either pecuniarily or 
as counsel for the applicant. 

6. All members of a sub-committee making a report, whether 
members of the general committee or not, shall receive notice of 
any meetings at which said report will be considered, and shall have 
the right to the floor in the discussion thereof, and the Secretary shall 
state this fact on the notices of appointment of members of sub- 
committees. 

7. A quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of a 
sub-committee properly called, shall consist of the member or mem- 
bers present, irrespective of numbers. 

8. No inventor or other person interested in the issue of an in- 
vestigation shall be present at a meeting of a sub-committee- or of 
the general committee, when the merits of a subject or invention 
in which he is interested shall be under discussion, except at the in- 
vitation of the sub-committee charged with the investigation; but 
after the report of the sub-committee Ijas passed first reading, he may 
examine it, on application to the Secretary, and may make any ex- 
planations or objections, in writing, addressed to the chairman of the 
general committee; provided, that such explanations or objections 
shall be submitted not later than the next stated meeting of the 
general committee. 

9. No subject, or invention, can be withdrawn after it has been 
assigned .to a sub-committee for investigation without the consent of 
the general committee. 

10. Sub-committees in preparing their reports shall accompany 
them with drawings or diagrams, whenever these will serve to illus- 
trate the subject of their reports; and they shall be authorized, 
whenever they shall think it necessary, to require inventors, or other 
persons interested in the investigations, to furnish such drawings or 
diagrams as a condition of their making such investigations and 
reports. 

Reports on all subjects must be signed by a majority of those 
members of the sub-committee who have participated in the investi- 
gations. Minority reports may be received and considered by a vote 
of the majority of the members present. When a report is issued 
it shall have attached to it the names of the chairman and secretary. 

11. When any sub-committee deems the subject upon which it 
reports worthy of an award of the Certificate of Merit, the Edward 
Longstreth Medal of Merit, the John Scott Legacy Premium and 
Medal, or the Elliott Cresson Medal, it shall append to its report a 
recommendation to that effect, and such recommendation shall not be 



changed by the general committee, except by a vote of two-thirds of 
the members present. 

It shall not be competent for any member of the Committee on 
Science and the Arts to be a competitor for any of the medals or other 
awards in the gift, or subject to the recommendation of the said com- 
mittee, unless the subject for award be referred to the committee for 
examination by a vote of the Institute. 

12. The reports of all sub-committees may be discussed at the 
meeting of the general committee at which they are first presented, 
but shall be laid over for second reading and final action until the 
next meeting, except that, by unanimous vote of the members present, 
they may be taken up for second reading and finally disposed of. 

13. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to certify to the applicant 
the action of the committee, and to furnish one copy of its report 
within ten days after the same shall have been finally adopted, except 
in cases where the committee has made or recommended an award, 
when the copy shall be withheld from the applicant and from publi- 
cation during the time in which proper objections to such award, or 
motion for reconsideration, may be made. In default of such motion 
or objections, the previous action upon a report and award shall be 
final. 

14. After a report has been finally acted on it shall not be recon- 
sidered, except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. A 
motion for reconsideration must be made not later than the next 
stated meeting after the adoption of the report which it is proposed to 
reconsider, and may be acted on at the next following stated meeting. 
x\fter a report has been finally acted on a second investigation of the 
same subject-matter shall not be ordered, except on a vote of two- 
thirds of the members present. 

15. Alter the second roll-call at each meeting the Secretary shall 
report the name of every member who has been absent from three 
successive stated meetings, and has not during that time attended a 
meeting of a sub-committee, and unless otherwise severally ordered by 
a vote of a majority of the members present, each such member shall 
be considered as having resigned. 

16. These regulations may be altered in the following manner: 
Propositions for amendment shall be made at a stated meeting in 
writing. They may be considered when presented, but shall not be 
acted on until the next stated meeting, and shall be considered 
adopted when agreed to by two-thirds of the members present. In all 
cases, notice of proposed amendments shall be given by publication 
on card notices. 



CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. 

The following is published for information (extract from the 
minutes of the stated meeting of the Franklin Institute, held Wednes- 
day, June 21, 1882) : — 

At the stated meeting of the Institute, held on the above date, the 
following resolutions were adopted: — 

''Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts of the 
Franklin Institute is hereby authorized to award, and issue to persons 
by said committee adjudged worthy, a Certificate of Merit for their 
inventions, discoveries or productions, which Certificate shall read as 
follows : — 

'The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the 

promotion of the Mechanic Arts, awards to this Certificate of 

Merit. This award is made pursuant to the recommendation of the 
Committee on Science and the Arts. 

''Report No. Approved, 19 — 

"Chairman Committee Science and the Arts. 

" President. 

[seal.] " Secretary. 

''Resolved, That all such Certificates of Merit so awarded shall be 
signed by the President and Secretary of the Franklin Institute and 
the Chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts, and attested 
bv the seal of the Institute, and be transmitted to the person named 
therein by the Secretary." 

The Committee on Science and the Arts has adopted general 
regulation on investigations, which govern the award of the Cer- 
tificate of Merit; see Regulations Nos. 11, 13 and 14. 

(An award of the Certificate of Merit requires no advertisement.) 

The following resolutions were adopted at the stated meeting of 
the Institute, held January 16, 1895 : — 

"Resolved, That the Institute shall issue diplomas to applicants in 
cases where awards of medals have been made to inventors, and where 
the applicants have failed to receive recognition for their share in the 
development of an invention. 

"Resolved, That in order to further increase the value of awards, 
as well as to give greater publicity to the work of the Committee on 
Science and the Arts, each such award or recommendation shall be 
accompanied by an engraved certificate of the fact suitable' for 



THE EDWARD LONGSTRETH MEDAL OF MERIT. 

The following is a brief history of this endowment: — 

In the month of May, 1890, Edward Longstreth, machinist, and 
retired member of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of the city of 
Philadelphia, deposited with the Franklin Institute, in trust, a reg- 
istered bond of the Baltimore Traction Co. for the sum of one 
thousand dollars, for the founding and perpetuation of the Edward 
Longstreth Silver Medal; the interest accruing from said principal 
sum to be used in procuring and awarding said medals for the en- 
couragement of invention, and in recognition of meritorious work 
in science and the industrial arts; the said awards to be made by the 
Franklin Institute through its Committee on Science and the Arts, 
under such rules as said committee may adopt. 

This donor further presented to the Franklin Institute twelve 
silver medals and the dies therefor designed and executed under the 
direction of a committee of the Institute with the approval of the 
donor. 

The obverse of the medal bears the effigy of the donor, and is 
inscribed around the margin, ''The Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit, 
founded 1890." On the reverse is inscribed around the margin, 
''Awarded by the Franklin Institute," the centre to be filled by the 
engraved name of the recipient, with the object of award and date. 

On May 14, 1890, the Board of Managers of the Franklin In- 
stitute, by resolution, accepted on behalf of the Institute the gifts of 
the donor, and on September 17, 1890, the Institute, by resolution 
following, confirmed the acceptance: — 

''Resolved, That the Institute hereby confirms the action of the 
Board of Managers in accepting the gift of foundation of the Edward 
Longstreth Medal of Merit, and in expressing its grateful 
acknowledgments for the gift. 

''Resolved, That the grant of the Edward Longstreth Medal, in 
accordance with the wishes of the donor, be entrusted to the Com- 
mittee on Science and the Arts, subject to such conditions as the 
said committee, with the approval of the Institute, may propose." 

In conformity with the foregoing instructions, the Committee 
on Science and the Arts has established the following rules to be 
observed in awarding the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit: — 

"i. This medal may be awarded for useful invention, important 
discovery and meritorious work in, or contributions to, science, or 
the industrial arts. 

"2. In all cases where the subject of investigation shall be judged 
worthy of the award of the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit, the 



adoption of the report containing such an award by the Committee on 
Science and the Arts shall be conclusive without advertisement as 
required in the case of other awards by the committee. 

"^. In the event of an accumulation of the fund for medals 
beyond the sum of one hundred dollars, it shall be competent for the 
Committee on Science and the Arts to offer from such surplus a 
money premium for some special work on any mechanical or scien- 
tific subject that said committee may consider of sufficient im- 
portance." 

At the stated meeting of the Franklin Institute, held Wednesday, 
January 21, 1891, the Secretary, by direction of the Committee on 
Science and the Arts, presented the report of this committee in refer- 
ence to the regulations for the grant of the Edward Longstreth Medal 
of Merit. On motion, the committee's action was confirmed, and the 
regulations proposed in the report were approved. 

The Committee on Science and the x\rts has adopted general 
regulations on investigations which govern the award of the Edward 
Longstreth Medal of Merit; see Regulations Nos. 11, 13 and 14. 

(An award of the Edward Longstreth Medal requires no adver- 
tisement.) 

THE JOHN SCOTT LEGACY PREMIUM AND MEDAL. 

The following particulars are published for the information of the 
ingenious: — 

John Scott, chemist, late of Edinburgh, by his will, made in the 
year 1816, bequeathed the sum of four thousand dollars in the funded 
three per cent, stock of the United States, to the corporation of the 
city of Philadelphia, directing that the interest and dividend to be- 
come receivable thereon should be laid out in premiums, to be dis- 
tributed among ingenious men and women who make useful in- 
ventions, but no such premium to exceed twenty dollars, and that 
therewith shall be given a copper medal with this inscription: 'To the 
most deserving." 

The Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia, by 
an ordinance passed February 27, 1834, vested the award of the afore- 
said premiums and medals in the Franklin Institute of the State of 
Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. 

The Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, by an Act passed 
and approved June 30, 1869, created a ''Board of Directors of City 
Trusts," to whom was referred the charge or administration of all 
estates dedicated to charitable uses. 



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The control of the John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal was 
(by the Act of 1869) transferred to the Board of Directors of City 
Trusts. 

This Board, by a resolution passed April 12, 1882, referred the 
matter, with instructions, to its Committee on Wills' Hospital and 
Minor Trusts. 

The Committee on Wills' Hospital and Minor Trusts, by a 
resolution passed April 12, 1882, resolved that "they will favorably 
receive the names of any persons whom the Franklin Institute may, 
from time to time, report to the Committee on Minor Trusts as 
worthy of receiving the John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium." 

The Franklin Institute, by a resolution passed June 21, 1882, 
accepted the above, and referred the duty of making examinations, 
etc., to the Committee on Science and the Arts. 

That committee has adopted the following rules in regard to 
recommendations of the award of the John Scott Legacy Premium 
and Medal: — 

1. A recommendation for an award of the premium and medal 
shall be made only by the Committee on Science and the Arts, on a 
report of a sub-committee which shall have been appointed to 
examine such invention. 

2. The invention or improvement to be examined shall be accom- 
panied by a clear description and drawings of the same, together 
with a model, if required, and also a statement of the particulars of the 
inventor's claim to originality. 

3. When the invention is a composition of matter, specimens of 
the ingredients and of the compound sufficient for the purpose of 
experiments, and to preserve in the cabinet of the Franklin Institute, 
shall be furnished by the inventor. 

4. Upon the adoption by the Committee on Science and the Arts 
of a report ^setting forth that an invention or improvement is worthy 
of an award of the premium and medal, publication shall be made 
three times in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, ■ stating that at 
the expiration of three months from the date of the first publication, 
the Committee on Science and the Arts will recommend to the Com- 
mittee on Minor Trusts of the Board of City Trusts, the award of the 
said premium and medal to the inventor, unless within that time 
satisfactory evidence shall have been submitted to the Committee 
on Science and the Arts of the want of originality of the supposed 
invention and improvement. In case no such objections to the final 
award of the premium and medal shall have been made, the Secretary 
shall certify the recommendation of the award to the Committee on 
Minor Trusts of the Board of City Trusts. 



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5. All applications for the John Scott Legacy Premium and 
!Medal must be made to the Secretary of the Institute, by whom the 
applications and accompanying descriptions, drawings, etc., shall be 
laid before the Committee on Science and the Arts, and by whom all 
publications ordered by said comrnittee, in relation to said premiums 
and medals, shall be made. 



THE ELLIOTT CRESSON MEDAL. 

[abstract of the deed of trust.] 

Under date of February i8, 1848, Elliott Cresson, Esq., of Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, conveyed to Trustees, for the Franklin In- 
stitute, one thousand dollars of the six per cent, convertible loan of the 
President, Managers and Company of the Schuylkill Navigation 
Company — to hold the said sum and the interest to accrue thereon, 
for the following use and purposes: — 

1. The Trustees to keep the principal invested as it now is until it 
is reimbursed by the said Company, and immediately after such 
reimbursement to reinvest the said principal of one thousand, dollars 
in such securities, bearing interest, as may by law be designated for 
the investment of trust funds. And from time to time, as the said 
principal sum may be reimbursed, reinvest the same in like manner. 

2. To cause suitable dies to be prepared for striking the gold 
medal out of the first sufficient moneys received for interest on the 
said sum of one thousand dollars. The dies to bear the following de- 
vices and inscriptions: The obverse — a medallion likeness of the 
said Elliott Cresson, with inscription around the margin, ''Elliott 
Cresson Medal, A. D. 1848." Reverse — around the margin, ''Awarded 
by the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania." The center to be filled 
by engraving the name of the party to whom awarded and the year 
in which the award may be made. 

3. After the said dies have been prepared, and paid for out of the 
money received for interest, the said Trustees to cause to be struck, 
from time to time, such number of gold medals as the interest re- 
ceived w^ill pay for, and deliver the same to the Treasurer of the 
Franklin Institute, to be by him delivered to such persons or parties 
as the said Franklin Institute, by any rule or regulation they may 
adopt, may have awarded the same. The said awards, however, to be 
in all instances made either for some discovery in the arts and 
sciences, or for the invention or improvement of some useful machine, 
or for some new process or combination of materials in manufactures, 
or for ingenuity, skill or perfection in workmanship. 



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At the stated meeting of the Institute held May 17, 1849— On 
motion, it was 

"Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts be author- 
ized to award the Elliott Cresson Medal to such inventions and manu- 
factures as shall, in their opinion, deserve it, subject to the rules 
which now govern the award of the John Scott Legacy Premium 
and Medal." (Repealed at the stated meeting held September 20, 
1893.) 

At the stated meeting held September 20, 1893, the following 
resolution was adopted: — 

"Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts be author- 
ized to award the Elliott Cresson Medal for such discoveries, in- 
ventions or manufactures as shall, in their opinion, deserve it, subject 
to the general regulations on investigations and the following special 
rules: — 

''i. Upon the adoption, by the Committee on Science and the 
Arts, of a report setting forth that a discovery, invention, improve- 
ment or manufacture is worthy of an award of the Elliott Cresson 
Medal, publication shall be made three times in the Journal of the 
Franklin Institute, stating that at the expiration of three months from 
the date of the first publication, the applicant will be entitled to 
receive the award of the said medal, unless within that time satis- 
factory evidence shall have been submitted to the Committee on 
Science and the Arts of the want of originality or merit, of the sup- 
posed discovery, invention, improvement or manufacture. 

"2. All applications for the Elliott Cresson Medal must be made 
to the Secretary of the Institute, by whom the applications and 
accompanying descriptions, drawings, etc., shall be laid before the 
Committee on Science and the Arts, and by whom all publications 
ordered by said committee, in relation to said medal, shall be made."' 



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At the stated meeting of the Institute, held December 6, 1893, 
the following resolution, recommended for approval by the Commit- 
tee on Science and the Arts, was adopted, viz. : — 

''Resolved, That the President and Secretary of the Institute be 
authorized to affix their signatures, and the Secretary to affix the 
seal of the Institute, to all reports of the Committee on Science and 
the Arts, when finally adopted by it, setting forth that such reports 
are the action of the Franklin Institute, by its Committee on Science 
and the Arts." 



The following resolution was adopted at the stated meeting of 
the Committee on Science and the Arts, held Wednesday, November 
2, 1898, viz.: — 

"Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the chair- 
man for the purpose of presenting to the committee subjects worthy 
of investigation, and that this committee be required to report at 
each stated meeting." 

[The foregoing resolution practically constitutes this committee 
a standing committee. It is known as the Committee on New Sub- 
jects.] 



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